Nautilus overwrites existing files when merging folders

[Erik Csin]

I am using Ubuntu 13.10 64bits.

When I drag and drop a folder from my primary internal hard drive to my second internal hard drive that contains a folder containing files with the same name than in the source folder, Nautilus prompts "Merge folder "folder1"?".

I check "Apply this action to all files" and click "Merge".

And now, Nautilus overwrites files with the same name in the destination folder instead of prompting me if I want to skip copying existing files.

I have the same problem when copying a folder to an external hard drive.

This problem doesn't occur in Ubuntu 12.10 that I was using a few days ago before upgrading to 13.10. It doesn't occur neither when merging folders on the same hard drive. It only happens when the source folder and the destination folder are on two different hard drives.

ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2
Linux 3.11.0-12-generic

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Drey (drey)]

Added gnome bugzilla link

[Larry Irwin (lrirwin)]

Using Ubuntu Desktop 14.04.2 LTS, GNOME nautilus 3.10.1
I was using 2 instances of nautilus ("Files" as it it named...).
In one instance I copied a folder and in the other I pasted it.
The destination folder had a sub-folder that did not exist in the source folder.
The source folder had a subfolder that did not exist in the destination folder.
After the paste operation using the "Merge" option, the destination folder contained only what was in the source folder.
Everything else that used to be in the destination folder is gone.
The source folder was on my laptop's hard drive.
The destination folder was on my Samsung Android phone mounted via USB.
Nautilus crashed during the operation and a bug report was submitted today. (I think I clicked the right buttons...)
I tested the same operation using 2 folders on the local hard drive and it worked as expected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream said it's fixed in newer versions